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With the easy credit, cheap money era crashed, the situation facing British manufacturing is testing and potentially hazardous. Colin Chinery reports

It wasn’t remotely a cause. But as a symptom of the global credit squeeze, the image of small investors besieging a major building society was a shock, potent in historical associations. Wall Street ‘29 had come to Britain’s high streets. Northern...

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